Text of Law No. 1 of 1951, signed by Sukarno on 6 January 1951, extending the 1948 Labour Law (No. 12) to all of Indonesia. It limits children's and youths' work and bars women from night work, mines and hazardous jobs. It grants women paid rest on the first two days of menstruation, 1.5 months before and after childbi
FBIS-monitored Xinhua excerpt (24 Jan 1953): four Indonesian delegates to the Vienna Peace Congress (K. Werdojo, S.A.M. Mudigdio and Sunardi, MPs, and Sukrisno, assistant editor-in-chief of ANTARA) arrived in Peking by air the previous day at the invitation of the China Peace Committee, with a Burmese delegate. Records
Berlin edition of the WIDF IVth Congress (Vienna, June 1958) pamphlet on the conference 'Conditions which will enable woman to fulfil her role as mother, worker and citizen' (98 delegates, 55 countries). The Indonesian section (pp. 66-70) has Mudigdio, Gerwani vice-chair, urging a WIDF study or seminar on peasant women
Renmin Ribao, 9 Nov 1959, p. 6: multi-item foreign-news column. The Indonesia item says the Gerwani Central Committee condemned an invitation from Jakarta's American Women's Association to Indonesian women students for a dance with US Seventh Fleet sailors as leading to moral corruption and sullying national dignity; t
Renmin Ribao, 9 Nov 1959, p. 6: multi-item foreign-news column. The Indonesia item says the Gerwani Central Committee condemned an invitation from Jakarta's American Women's Association to Indonesian women students for a dance with US Seventh Fleet sailors as leading to moral corruption and sullying national dignity; t
FBIS-monitored VNA report (16 Sep 1963): the Indonesian parliamentary delegation headed by Deputy Speaker M.H. Lukman (PKI) arrived in Hanoi to a welcome of nearly 3,000 people; DRV leaders spoke of solidarity; Vietnamese and Indonesian women presented bouquets. Gerwani not named; context for PKI-linked parliamentary d
South China Morning Post, 9 Nov 1965, p.20 (Jakarta, 8 Nov): Sukarno is given a list of suspected PKI members of parliament; about 10,000 housewives, girl students and actresses marched to Suharto's HQ and the National Front office shouting support for Sukarno and the armed forces, denounced Gerwani, 'the PKI's women's